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By Marc Cooper
By Dominic Lieven
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Masked protesters have become a common sight around the globe and Canada is so concerned about the phenomenon that parliament passed a bill that could, under certain circumstances, put disguised men and women away for a very long time.
Posted on Jun 20, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a third GOP senator throws her support behind legalizing gay marriage and a Democratic lawmaker takes a major step to end corporate personhood.
Posted on Jun 19, 2013
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The Federal Reserve will continue to buy bonds at a rate of $85 billion a month, but Chairman Ben Bernanke said better economic indicators mean the central bank could end its quantitative easing policy in 2014.
Posted on Jun 19, 2013
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The tennis superstar says she’s “deeply sorry for what was written”—or rather, what she “supposedly said”—in a recent Rolling Stone profile in which she essentially blamed the rape on the 16-year-old victim.
Posted on Jun 19, 2013
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Speaking at a Senate hearing Wednesday about telephone data collection, FBI Director Robert Mueller said the bureau uses drones to aid its investigations in a “very, very minimal way, very seldom.”
Posted on Jun 19, 2013
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The whistle-blower spoke directly with Guardian readers Monday to answer questions about his leak of NSA documents and government surveillance in general.
Posted on Jun 19, 2013
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The Internet giant’s petition to the tribunal says its free speech rights have been violated because it is legally prohibited from discussing even the vaguest details of government surveillance requests.
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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The war of words between the site and the statistician appears to be escalating yet again after Politico co-founder Jim VandeHei accused Silver of getting “up on his high horse quite a lot” in an interview in New Republic.
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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Michael Hastings is best known as the Rolling Stone contributor whose reporting ended the military career of Gen. Stanley McChrystal but more important, he was a fearless reporter who did not suffer bullshit answers. He died Tuesday at the age of 33 in a car crash.
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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After more than 11 years of war in Afghanistan, a country known as “the graveyard of empires” for its inability to be conquered and held, the White House announced Tuesday that it will sit down with the Taliban and try to work things out with words instead of bombs.
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Sen. John McCain’s hypocrisy on “secret emails” and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s revelation about the scary way a GOP-controlled Senate would act.
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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“Every president in this century should be put on trial,” the professor and former Weather Underground member said. “Every one of them goes into an office dripping with blood and then adds to it. And, yes, I think that these are war crimes. I think that they’re acts of terror.”
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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Late last week, some leading chemical weapons experts voiced skepticism about U.S. claims that the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used sarin gas against rebels on at least four occasions this spring. Months of investigation have failed to uncover the telltale signs of an attack, they say.
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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A few-cent rise in public transportation prices led to protests Monday across Brazil involving more than 100,000 people angered over heavy-handed policing, poor public services and high costs for the World Cup.
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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Some of you may have recently received malware warnings when attempting to access Truthdig through the Chrome browser. We would like to assure you that Truthdig is safe to visit, as described on Google’s diagnostic page for our site. More inside.
Posted on Jun 17, 2013
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